Changing Homelands Hindu Politics and the Partition of India

Name: Changing Homelands Hindu Politics and the Partition of India
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ISBN: 9780674057791

ISBN-10: 0674057791

ISBN-13: 9780674057791

Edition: 2011

Authors: Neeti Nair

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Changing Homelands offers a startling new perspective on what was and was not politically possible in late colonial India. In this highly readable account of the partition in the Punjab, Neeti Nair rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, the idea of partition was a very late, stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region.In tracing the political and social history of the Punjab from the early years of the twentieth century, Nair overturns the entrenched view that Muslims were responsible for the partition of India. Some powerful Punjabi Hindus also preferred…

Book details

List price: $73.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Neeti Nair is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.



Abbreviations


Introduction



Loyalty and Anti-Colonial Nationalism



Negotiating a Minority Status



Religion and Non-Violence in Punjabi Politics



Towards an All-India Settlement



Partition Violence and the Question of Responsibility



Memory and the Search for Meaning in Post-Partition Delhi


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Index